Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

Modern technology is amazing: where humans see an unchanging void in the depths of the universe, space telescopes are capable ...

The University of Innsbruck is coordinating a new FWF special research area on the dark universe, which seeks answers to the ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the centre of our galaxy. One possibility is that dark matter – the unknown ...

The mysterious glow can’t easily be explained, leading a University of Tokyo researcher to argue it could be humanity’s first ...

Despite his vast body of work and deep influence in the sci-fi genre, many of Isaac Asimov's books never got a movie ...

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, scientists have imagined watching the Milky Way evolve one star at a time, almost ...

Hints of a mirror cosmos have a way of gripping the imagination, and recent chatter about “first proof” of a parallel ...

Dark matter was first proposed in 1933 when scientists observed that galaxies were spinning too rapidly. They should have ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

The creators of Russian nuclear weapons and energy have made an important contribution to the development of nuclear medicine, said Veronika Skvortsova, head of the Federal Medical and Biological ...